Jan Abernathy

Jan Abernathy is the Chief Communications Officer at The Browning School and a member of the CASE Commission on Marketing and Communications and on the faculty of the CASE Academy. She was previously the Director of Marketing and Communications for the Elisabeth Morrow School and is the president of the New York City Independent Schools Communications Professionals group as well as a co-founder of the Black Advancement Network. Jan is a trustee of Grace Church School and Tessa International School.

This is Jan’s third year as a Brilliance Awards judge.

Jan Quoted

“What I really like to see is the ways in which people can take things that are very commonplace to us in schools and make them new and different and exciting.”

“You discover schools that you've never heard of or didn't know about, some ways of doing things and communicating messages that you might not have thought about before.”

“This is a big [judging] panel — a lot of really great judges. I look at their bios and what they've done, and go, wow, this person is taking time out of their busy schedule to be a part of this!”

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